Articles Tagged with ''H-2A''

Mathis discusses the Trump resistance bill, the reasons why the bill to fix the Friant-Kern Canal failed, and his frustrations over the state’s “environmentalist agenda.”

Trump touts deal with Japan * More tariff hikes * Becerra challenges EPA over ethics * Demand for H-2A slows

The California Legislature is nearly set to cast the final votes on a bill proposing a new streamlined process for building farmworker housing.

A sweeping proposed overhaul of the H-2A farm labor program would have varying impacts on worker wages, while cutting farmers’ transportation expenses and reducing the number of applications farms have to file to import employees.

New regulatory policies aimed at conventional agriculture are raising concerns over the future of a rapidly growing market.

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration reform, the result is that U.S. consumers are paying more for a less-secure food supply as more production moves south of the Mexican border in search of farm labor.